But first, the return with fanfare of the Avignon festivalthe world’s largest live performance event, in an almost normal edition, after two years marked by the Covid and the desertion of spectators.
The Festival d’Avignon therefore opens its doors to the public this Thursday, while the 7th wave of Covid is sweeping across the territory and in particular in the south of France. But the desire for discovery and sharing is back. Benoît Grossin is our special correspondent on site.
How does the 76th edition of the Avignon festival look like? Story by Benoît Grossin
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In France, the other news this morning is purchasing power law, which will be examined by the Council of Ministers today, it is the first major piece of legislation from the Borne government. The main measures had been mentioned during the presidential campaign, but also yesterday during the general policy speech of the Prime Minister before Parliament.
A frequently interrupted hour and a half speech on the left of the hemicycle. Elisabeth Borne, however, called for compromise, swearing that all the texts presented in the future would be debatable and amendable.
What will happen, then, to the measures concerning purchasing power? The government should offer bonuses and vouchers for energy and food.
Useful but insufficient, deplore the aid associations for the most deprived, who call for more structural responses, such as the RSA for young people, or a greater increase in social minima.
Another announcement yesterday from Elisabeth Bornethe 100% renationalization ofEDF in anticipation of a long period of expensive energy. EDF had opened up to competition in 2005, but the State still owns 84%. The trade unions, which however demanded this renationalisation, are skeptical.
The situation on the energy front is even more tense in Germany than in France, the German government expects a total disruption of gas supply at the end of July. The Russian giant Gazprom only provides 40% of the regular level of deliveries by the Nord Stream gas pipeline. The government now expects another explosion in prices. In the Saxony region, an HLM housing company even decided to cut off the hot water during the day, to avoid unpleasant surprises for tenants with the charges.
He hangs on but his position is now Untenable. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refuses to resign while the majority of his own ministers and deputies push him to resign. Boris Johnson who chain the blunders since the Party Gate affair but who clings to power desperately.
The Syrian conflict has faded into the media background since the war in Ukraine and yet a humanitarian crisis is brewing in the northwest of the country where NGOs are worried about the imminent closure of the last humanitarian corridor between Turkey and this region of Syria, a corridor that passes through the jihadists or the rebels who control the area.
But Russia has been pushing for years to ensure that this humanitarian aid only goes through Damascus. She could veto an upcoming UN resolution.
More than 14 million Syrians depend on this international aid
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